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My 30-day challenge reader’s digest!

Redacting for 30 consecutive days has been an adventure. You will find 30 articles of the challenge at one glance below and if you want to know more about what I’ve learnt during this challenge, I’m detailing my achievements and difficulties in my previous article. Now I’m back to a normal weekly rhythm. I hope you’ll stay tuned! Coronavirus: work and payroll impacts Article 1 – Day 1: 10 April This is the first article of my 30 articles – 30-day challenge! I hope this will help you understand the current difficult situation and the last paycheck you have received during this Coronavirus outbreak! What to expect at a…

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My crazy 30-day expat blog challenge completed!!!

Dear reader! Today I’m celebrating! Today I’ve completed my 30-day expat blog challenge! Thirty articles written in 30 days! I’m so proud (and also relieved!). It might not seem much… You may think, well, it’s quite easy to write one article per day, especially during a lockdown… Writing is not so hard; anyone can do it! Well… it’s more complicated than that! And much harder than I thought, I can tell you that! As it is the last article of my expat blog challenge, I wanted to share with you what I’ve learnt while writing those 30 articles as a beginner blogger! My God I’ve said it! I’m a blogger!…

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Food

My Grandma’s tart Tatin recipe

My Grandma’s tart Tatin recipe (Tarte Tatin) Much ink has been spilt over the origin of the tart Tatin. It even seems the story was made up to make it famous at the beginning of the 20th century! Stéphanie and Caroline Tatin were running a Hotel-restaurant in the Sologne region. The hotel Tatin even had the honour of being mentioned in the first Guide Michelin edition in 1900! The Tatin sisters made their tart famous, but not by forgetting to put the pastry on time over the apple as it is the legend, but by telling a story over their delicious dessert. A Parisian restaurant owner, Louis Vaudable, then stole their recipe but gave it the sisters’ name. In any case, the Tarte Tatin became a famous dessert in France. I’m sharing with you my Grandma’s version of the Tarte Tatin. I hope you will like it. Ingredients for the best Tarte Tatin For a baking tin of 26 diameters. For the…

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Culture

My must-see French movies about WWII

Today, 8th May is the day of the French WWII Armistice. Remembering not to let it happen again… This was Lucie Aubrac leitmotiv, a French resistant! Let’s remember by watching the great WWII French movies! From comedy to drama, let’s remember a nice way! La Grande Vadrouille – Don’t look now… we’re being shot at (1966) Another Louis de Funès classic. In this movie, he teams up with Bourvil, their double act is just hilarious! A clever film that will keep you laughing throughout. The humour lies in the absurd situations the characters get themselves into. With an audience of 17,2 million, this movie kept the record as the most…

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Food

My grandma’s Gougère recipe

If you have travelled to Burgundy, you may have tried the Gougère, small cheese puffs, that French people usually have with an aperitif. I will share with you my grandma's Gougère recipe!

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Culture

My 7 must-see French movies – 1990-2000

Being a child and a young teenager in the ’90s, these movies bring back memories and references to specific times. The same as music, movies are a representation of cultural references, a way of seeing life and reflecting.

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Food

My grandma’s Savoie cake recipe

My grandma’s Savoie cake recipe (Gâteau de Savoie) This is THE family recipe for a very traditional cake from the region of Savoie, in the French Alps. This is my grandma’s region, and I think she got this recipe from her mother.

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Culture

3 major culture shocks I experienced as an expat

What is normal? Since I’m an adult, I’ve lived abroad for more than 7 years in 6 different countries. Each experience was different and, as time was passing, I was getting used to the culture shocks.

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Culture

My 7 Must-see French movies – 2000-2010

My hometown, Lyon, is the birthplace of cinema with the Lumière brother’s invention able to be broadcasted to crowds. I couldn’t but talk about the French cinema! The first public cinema broadcast happened in 1895 in Paris, showing workers as they left the Lumière brother’s factory in Lyon.

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Culture

Hierarchy at work in France

Have you ever felt that the way French employees were behaving with their boss was a bit different than you have experienced in your country? You might still be trying to figure out how to behave and don’t really understand how professional relations work in terms of hierarchy in France.

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